Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé is a British novelist from Croydon in South London who studied English, Chinese, and anthropology at the University of Aberdeen and holds an MA in Shakespeare Studies from King's College London. Her debut, the young-adult thriller Ace of Spades (2021), reached the New York Times bestseller list and won the 2022 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work.

She followed it with Where Sleeping Girls Lie and, with co-author Adiba Jaigirdar, the romantic comedy Four Eids and a Funeral. She also runs a mentorship scheme for unagented writers of colour.